Easy, right?
There comes a point when you stop talking. Not that you don’t talk, of course you talk, you just don’t talk about the thing that really…
It’s supposed to be easy, right?
Managing a team, working towards a common goal with coherent efforts, coordinating the moving parts, keeping the stakeholders updated with progress and aware of their various contributions, holding them accountable, adding resources wherever and whenever necessary, dealing with the snafus, fighting the fires and all that whilst taking one step after another in a vaguely forward direction. A doddle. Surely?
Except … obviously … no.
Every piece of the pie needs its own special recipe. The ingredients need to be weighed and combined and baked and handled just so. And the pieces have to be brought together and served as a whole. And if just one part goes wrong, you have to rethink and recombine and rework until things come together again.
And then something changes and it starts again.
Not easy. Hard. That’s the job.
Skippy strategy: We don’t do this because it’s easy.
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